Broekhuijse 2 Side B

The cassette is a TDK D60. It is the second part of an interview with Johan Theodorus Broekhuijse (22-12-1929 - 27-9-2020) in Amsterdam on 16-3-1989. Jan Broekhuijse was a civil servant in Dutch New Guinea from 1959 to 1963. First, he did research in Hollandia on the circumstances of the Papua’s in the city. Later in 1959 he was transferred to Wamena to do research among the Ndani and help to establish the government authority in the Baliem valley. In 1960 he was asked to take care of the American Harvard-Peabody expedition and its film crew. Broekhuijsse and Abututi worked as care takers, translators and informers for the expedition. It resulted in the documentary Dead Birds and several books by Robert Gardner, Peter Matthiessen and Karl Heider. The sound track of the movie was edited from the tapes of Michael Rockefeller, also a member of the expedition. After his return to the Netherlands Broekhuijse was employed by the ministry of foreign affairs and he wrote his thesis: De Wiligiman-Dani: een cultureel-anthropologische studie over religie en oorlogvoering in de Baliem-vallei, Tilburg: Gianotten, 1967. The same year he was employed by the Royal Institute of the Tropics in Amsterdam, for which he did mainly development projects related research in Africa. He retired in 1994. His collection of Ndani objects he gave to the Tropical Museum. He collected also objects for the museum in Burkino Fasso where he also made sound recordings which were issued on an LP by the Tropical Museum. The original tapes are now with the institute of Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum.
He wrote: Memorie van overgave: een wijsgerig-anthropologisch onderzoek naar de mentale structuren die het menselijk leven aansturen en ordenen in religie en cultuur, Noorden, Post, 2009 and De Harvard-Peabody expeditie naar de Dani van de Baliem-vallei, Nieuwkoop, 2020.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 31’37 and Side B is 31’33

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